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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2023

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2022
Applicant:

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Erhard Schreck, San Jose, CA (US);

Karl Flechsig, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Kenji Kuroki, Fujisawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 5/54 (2006.01); G11B 21/08 (2006.01); G11B 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G11B 21/08 (2013.01); G11B 2005/0021 (2013.01);
Abstract

Example systems, data storage devices, and methods to provide long-term spacing compensation for heat assisted magnetic recording are described. The data storage device includes a storage medium with data tracks and a head that can be positioned for reading and writing those tracks. The head includes a laser for heat assisted magnetic recording and a fly height actuator. Based on the operation of the laser, both a short-term fly height compensation parameter and a long-term fly height compensation parameter are determined based on different temperature state models. The operating power of the fly height actuator is determined, at least in part, based on the short-term and long-term height compensation parameters.


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